قعص

1 قَعَصَهُ: see 4, throughout.

A2: قُعِصَتِ الغَنَمُ The sheep, or goats, were seized, or affected, with the disease called قُعَاص, q. v. (S, K.) 4 اقعصهُ He slew him on the spot; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ قَعَصَهُ, (A, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. قَعْصٌ: (TK:) or both signify he slew him quickly: or the former signifies he struck, or shot at, it, (a thing, or an object of the chase,) and it died on the spot, before it was [struck or] shot: and he hastened and completed, or made sure or certain, his (a man's) slaughter: and ↓ قِعْصَةٌ is a subst. derived from it [app. signifying the act]. (L, TA.) Yousay also, اقعصهُ بِالرُّمْحِ, and ↓ قَعَصَهُ, He thrust him, or pierced him, with the spear, quickly: or from behind. (TA.) 7 انقعص He died. (K.) قَعْصٌ A quick death: (S, A, K:) and a quick slaughter; as also ↓ قَعَصٌ. (TA.) You say, مَاتَ قَعْصًا He (a man, S, A) died on the spot, from a blow or a shot. (S, A, K.) And it is said in a trad., مَنْ خَرَجَ مُجَاهِدًا فِى سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ فَقُتِلَ قَعْصًا فَقَدِ اسْتَوْجَبَ المَآبَ [Whoso goeth forth as a warrior in the cause of God, and is slain quickly, or suddenly, has a just claim to the permanent abode of happiness in the other world]: (S, * TA:) alluding to the مآب mentioned in the Kur xxxviii. 24 and 39. (Az, TA.) قَعَصٌ: see قَعْصٌ.

قِعْصَةٌ: see 4.

طَعْنَةٌ قَعْصَآءُ A thrust, or wound, with a spear or the like, that kills quickly. (TA.) قُعَاصٌ A certain disease which attacks sheep or goats, (S, A, K,) in consequence of which something flows from their noses, (TA,) killing them immediately, (S, A, K,) on the spot: (A:) and which kills men on the spot: (A:) and a certain disease in the breast, or chest, which is as though it broke the neck. (Lth, K.) It is said in a trad., وَمُوتَانٌ يَكُونُ فِى النَّاسِ كَقُعَاصِ الغَنَمِ [and a mortality which shall be among men, like the قعاص of sheep or goats]. (S.) قَعَّاصٌ: see what next follows.

مِقْعَصٌ: see what next follows.

مِقْعَاصٌ A lion that kills quickly; as also ↓ مِقْعَصٌ and ↓ قَعَّاصٌ. (K.) b2: See also what next follows.

غَنَمٌ مَقْعُوصَةٌ Sheep, or goats, seized, or affected, with the disease called قُعَاص: (S, K:) accord. to IAar, ↓ شَاةٌ مِقْعَاصٌ signifies a sheep, or goat, having the mortal disease so called. (TA.)